Nieky Holzken (photo via GLORY)

By FCF Staff

GLORY recently held its 19th event in Hampton, Virginia, and according to the kickboxing promotion’s broadcasting partner, Spike TV, the card averaged over 500,000 viewers.

GLORY 19, which featured heavyweight champ Rico Verhoeven scoring a TKO win over Errol Zimmerman, averaged 542,000 viewers for Spike (according to an email from the network). The card’s audience peaked, however, with 825,000 viewers.

Those numbers are a significant improvement on the 352,000 viewers GLORY 18 averaged. That event took place on November 7th and peaked with 648,000 viewers.

The February 6th event also saw Nieky Holzken win a one night, welterweight contender tourney to secure a title fight with champion Joseph Valtellini.